OpenOffice.org For Mac OS X

Chris Coleman writes "Move over Microsoft, OpenOffice.org is starting to take hold on Mac OS X. To facilitate this, we at Daemon News have put together a CD set that makes it really easy to install and use. We are also donating part of our booth space at Mac World Expo to the OpenOffice.org group to help spread awareness."

Comments

Re:Question.

[FyreFiend]

From the article:

Even if the X11 environment isn't running, when you click on the document it soon will be.

Quartz (Native OSX) version not ready yet.

[rf600r]

So says this page.

"The 1.0 sources build for Quartz (Mac OS X native). OpenOffice.org doesn't work there yet, but the program compiles and links, a large first step towards beginning our Quartz and Aqua tracks. If you're a developer, find out how to build and help us get the Quartz version finished and move onto our Aqua redesign effort! Special thanks to Dan B. and Dan W. for helping to push this along!"

Re:Quartz (Native OSX) version not ready yet.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, but OpenOffice.org is NOT written to GTK+. The graphics layer is fairly abstracted, but the problem is that all the controls are drawn via graphics primitives like lines and filled rectangles and text. So a button really is a bunch of lines and rectangles.

Its easy for us to get the Quartz port up and running, but the Quartz port will look _exactly_ like the X11 port because it will still use the lines & rectangles to draw the UI elements.

What everyone really wants is the Aqua port, which comes after the Quartz port and has those nice pulsing buttons and a menu bar on the top. Right? Well this is harder. A lot harder. But we are working on it.

Dan from the OOo Mac team

My god you're ugly.

[l-ascorbic]

Screenshots comparing OpenOffice.org with Office v.X show quite how far it has to go. It simply looks ghastly.

Aqua adoption timeline

[selderrr]

more detailed schedule found here

Still a long way to go, but if they get it aquafied, MS might eventually get hurt. Offcourse, they'll change doc format faster than you can say 'blub'...

Re:cool

[Anonymous Coward]

I think MS Office X for OS X is better than the Windows version. Its a really great, and stable, office suite.

Re:Question.

[ted_nugent]

If you want to run openoffice without X, try the (very) beta NeoOffice.

Re:Question.

[jbolden]

Neooffice is/was a proof of concept project. It isn't and its not going to be a end user product.

Re:Attn X11 foes

[analog_line]

As this is a prototyping project, it is merely a proof of concept intended for software engineers

Mostly non-functional. Printing barely supported according to their comments. Nice, but I don't alpha-test software I'm not working on myself.

Re:clipboard

[goon america]

I don't know, but you can experiment using the pbcopy and pbpaste shell commands. You can pipe and direct in and out of them and everything. They're really cool.

Re:Question.

[Graff]

does it still require x11 installed?

According to what I have read on the site, yes. However, it also installs and sets up x11 for you. They worked with the person in charge of OroborOSX, an Aqua look-alike window manager. This means that all of the windows and widgets that are running under x11 will look and act like normal Aqua windows and widgets. I use OroborOSX all the time and it is one of the best ways to run x11 apps under MacOS X.

Re:No dice, it still requires X11

[analog_line]

And, for the record, the window manager I'm using is the default, ugly fucking window manager. fvwm, I believe. I don't know how much more lightweight you can get.